North Bovey
North Bovey is a village and civil parish situated on the south-eastern side of Dartmoor National Park, Teignbridge, Devon, England, about 11 miles WSW of the city of Exeter and 1.5 miles SSW of Moretonhampstead.
North Bovey is a village and civil parish situated on the south-eastern side of Dartmoor National Park, Teignbridge, Devon, England, about 11 miles WSW of the city of Exeter and 1.5 miles SSW of Moretonhampstead. The village lies above the eastern bank of the River Bovey from which it takes its name. In 2001 the population of the parish was 274, compared to 418 in 1901 and 519 in 1801.
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Worth seeing in and around North Bovey
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Becky Falls
Becky Falls, originally known as Becka Falls, is a tourist attraction in Dartmoor, England, centered on a waterfall of around 20 metres down a boulder-strewn bed. In addition to the waterfall as the centrepiece, there is a woodland park with features such as a children's zoo, woodland trail, and crafts.
3.6 km · waterfall and tourist attraction in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Jay's Grave
Jay's Grave is supposedly the last resting place of a suicide victim who is thought to have died in the late 18th century and denied burial within consecrated ground, a standard practice for suicide victims at the time. It has become a well-known landmark on Dartmoor, Devon, in South-West England, and is the subject of local folklore, and several ghost stories.
3.2 km · archaeological site in Manaton, Teignbridge, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Andrew, Moretonhampstead
St Andrew's Church, Moretonhampstead is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in Moretonhampstead, Devon.
3.4 km · church in Moretonhampstead, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Bovey Castle
Bovey Castle, formerly the Manor House Hotel, is a large early 20th-century mansion on the edge of Dartmoor National Park, near Moretonhampstead, Devon, England. It is a Grade II* listed building and is now a hotel with 59 individually designed bedrooms in the hotel and 22 three-storey country lodges nearby.
1.7 km · country house, now hotel, in North Bovey, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to North Bovey
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 90 km · Bristol (BRS), 112 km · Birmingham (BHX), 247 km
- Cardiff → North Bovey104 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · £19–25
- Bristol → North Bovey123 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £14–18
- London → North Bovey275 km · quickest by road, 5h 13m · £28–38
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No local-transport research exists yet for North Bovey
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for North Bovey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBrittany Ferries carry vehicles and foot passengers to Plymouth from Roscoff, Saint-Malo (both France), or Santander (Spain).
- Get inPoole in Dorset is by road from Exeter, and receives Brittany Ferries from Cherbourg (France) and Condor Ferries from Saint Helier (Jersey).
- Get inThe other English Channel ferry ports are within a few hours' drive of Devon.
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Next door to North Bovey
- Moretonhampsteadtown in Teignbridge, Devon, UK3.2 km
- Manatonvillage in Devon, England, UK2.2 km
- Batworthyvillage in Devon, England, UK3.2 km